Chinese man has an eel enter his penis, then bladder after spa treatment

A Chinese man thought he would look years younger after bathing with live eels in a spa treatment designed to remove dead skin. Instead, one of the eels meant to eat the man’s dead skin cells decided to enter his penis through the urethra.

Yes, it swam up his penis and into his bladder.

According to Metro.co, Zhang Nan, 56, tried to grab the six-inch eel before it could swim all the way up inside him, but the eel was too slippery for him. From the story:

‘I climbed into the bath and I could feel the eels nibbling my body. But then suddenly I felt a severe pain and realised a small eel had gone into the end of my penis,’ the 56-year-old from Honghu, Hubei province said.

‘I tried to hold it and take it out, but the eel was too slippery to be held and it disappeared up my penis.’

(OK, that’s enough cringing now… it’s horrible, though, we know…)

Rushing himself to hospital, the man underwent a three-hour operation to remove the six-inch eel which was dead by the time doctors found it.

The spa treatment is similar to “fish pedicures” where fish eat the dead skin off a customer’s feet. The procedure has been outlawed in some parts of the country.